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...Communist supported Hukbalahap revolt in central Luzon is gaining popular following among the large landless agricultural class. Government controls designed to stop growing inflation have only hindered the progress of business. The treasury is empty, school teachers go unpaid, and large construction projects are at a standstill...
...from one shabby rented house to the next. She worked out complicated trade agreements with butchers and merchants, refused to deal with a grocer who would not hire one of her three sons, and charmed bakers into parting with stale bread. She summoned up an awesome queenliness when facing unpaid and threatening landlords. There were times when she went out, late at night, and rummaged through neighbors' ash barrels for fragments of usable coal...
Next morning the new parliament convened and with almost unanimous voice appointed meddlesome Henry Head a constable of Sark-a gesture of pure revenge, since Sark's two constables are unpaid and may not resign or refuse their jobs under severe penalty of law. Said Henry Head: "I object...
Commerce Department figures still showed that the U.S. had a slim balance of exports over imports. In July, said Commerce, the U.S.'s favorable balance of trade tipped the scales at a mere $63 million, the lowest level in nine years. Actually, if such unpaid-for exports as Marshall Plan goods were deducted from the total, the U.S. has had an unfavorable balance of trade totaling more than $1 billion since the first of the year. In short, the U.S. was finally reaching the point where trade was becoming something like a two-way street again-a healthy thing...
...been in jail for 47 days of what might have become a 1,200-day term, she took advantage of an old Connecticut law herself. She took the Poor Debtor's Oath, under which a person swearing to less than $17 in assets may escape jail for unpaid judgments. This week Alice Fox returned to her family and her old neighborhood. What did she think of Neighbor Rollo now? "I will not mention her name...